MLS playoffs

Sports with Art Thiel

5:00 am

Fri November 8, 2013

Game and season over. The Sounders' Clint Dempsey walks off the pitch after the Sounders lost to the Portland Timbers 3-2 Thursday night in Portland, in the second game of the Western Conference semifinals in the MLS Cup soccer playoffs.

The Seattle Sounders’ season has come to an end after a second playoff loss to Portland Thursday night. The Timbers beat the Sounders 3-2 in Portland to win the two-game, aggregate-goal semifinal series 5-3.

KPLU sports commentator Art Thiel says the game was an embarrassing end to the Sounders’ rocky season.

The Sounders play their final game of the regular season this Sunday against the LA Galaxy in California.

Next weekend, they face Real Salt Lake in the Western Conference semifinals - in a rematch from last year.

The Sounders have made it to the Major League Soccer playoffs all four years of their existence, but have yet to make it to round two. KPLU sports commentator Art Thiel says it's tough to say if this will be their year.